Have you ever wondered how countries compare when it comes to their education systems? That’s where the PISA Test comes in. PISA, or the Programme for International Student Assessment, is a worldwide ...

Many students seem to be blowing off a major international exam, leading some researchers to argue that the results paint a distorted picture of where countries stand in education rankings. Worldwide, ...

The results for PISA 2009 are revisited, focusing on the large decline in the scores of Irish students in reading and mathematics achievement. Findings concerning two aspects of PISA are reviewed: (a) ...

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Conventional wisdom is that top U.S. students fare well compared to their peers across the globe. According to this line of reasoning, the US doesn’t make it on the list of the top 25 countries in ...

The latest PISA scores are out. And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t ...

The latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results released at the end of 2019 seem to be another big win for China’s education system. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic ...

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On June 16, the 80 member countries of PISA, the programme for international student assessment, will meet in Paris to discuss a new ‘assessment of global competence’ to be rolled out for its 2018/19 ...

This paper investigates differences between male and female student performance on multiple-choice (MC) versus constructed-response (CR) items used on the large-scale math and reading PISA tests. The ...